A 10x career is one where you reach escape velocity and become truly high flying — with compounding opportunities for personal growth, societal contributions, and strong financial outcomes. - you will love this.
nfx.com/post/10x-caree
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I know Pete Flint is a highly believable character, but two things make me hesitate about this:
1. Flint's career was as CEO; he is the beneficiary of a high upside, capped downside, high-risk-tolerance career.
2. Everything in the piece just happens to benefit NfX itself.
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1) The truth of such a piece isn’t whether it stands in argument but whether it works in practice. That’s the bar for truth that I’m applying here. We shall see.
2) Everything in this piece says “get a 10x career by working for a NFX company, or come get funded by NFX” ;)
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Btw, in case it’s unclear: I’m not saying it’s right or it isn’t; I’ll need time to test some of these ideas.
All I’m saying is that the provenance is suspicious.
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1) Yes, but the fact that he was CEO again doesn't contradict the original statement of having merit to write such an article. Obviously, it's very hard to say what is luck/skill driven but usually still a good indicator.
2) There is no mention of working for NFX companies.
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